--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: >
> I agree that it's no easy undertaking. The point I
> would like to
> emphasize on this list at this point is, though,
> that it would take a
> political struggle of on the order of World War 2 or
> (as you note) an
> even greater one to abolish racism.
hrrrrmmmm ... isn't the key to this whole thing the phenomenon that Public Enemy identified on the Fear of a Black Planet album .... that the combination of a white person plus a black person tends to produce a black person. Given the utter intractability of the theoretical and practical issue, why bother to struggle against a problem which is likely to be smoothed out by Brownian motion over the next couple of hundred years?
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